I've been in programming for a little while and I would politely like to suggest that only 25% women in a field is actually pretty major.
I work in a reasonably balanced environment, but going to a conference with 90% guys where the vendor thought it was appropriate to employ waitresses in bikinis at their function(while at the same time time offering free alcohol...sooo not a good result), where every second speaker seemedto use anecdotes about their technologically illiterate wives really gave me pause.
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Date: 2007-10-04 06:49 pm (UTC)I work in a reasonably balanced environment, but going to a conference with 90% guys where the vendor thought it was appropriate to employ waitresses in bikinis at their function(while at the same time time offering free alcohol...sooo not a good result), where every second speaker seemedto use anecdotes about their technologically illiterate wives really gave me pause.